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Location: Parrish, FL | Need (want)to refinish the oak wood floors in the house we are buying prior to moving in. Any OFC'ers with experience in this department?
Type of sander, abrasives, procedures, etc, will be greatly appreciated.
When done, my music room will look fantiastic!
(guess that qualifies as 'On Topic')
Please send me a PM with your input. No sense taking up bandwidth here. Thanks for any and all suggestions. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Al's great on home improvements. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Don't use a highspeed beltsander and leave the room...it'll go right through the floor. At least that's what I saw in a movie one time!
You should be able to rent a big rotary floor sander at one tool rental shop or another. Looks like a big floor polisher. With luck they'll even tell you how to run it.
But unless you're tired of using your lungs for singing and breathing, look forward to having fine dust in cracks of your home you never noticed, and love getting high on chemical compounds....I'd hire someone to do it quick, and right. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I think I'd agree, much better to rent somebody to do it. |
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Location: NJ | I refinished all the floors in my house.
don't get the flat sander they try to rent you at home depot you need the industrial strength drum sander. you will need 2 different grits of paper. coarse and fine.
you need to ease the sander onto the floor to prevent burns and once you get the hang of it it is not too hard.
I prefer to stain and then poly over it. 2 coats minimum of poly.
BTW the edge sander is a lot more difficult to use then the drum sander. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | One of my collegues bought an apartment. It was painted totally black. The ceilings. The walls. The hardwood floors. It was owned by russians. It's like walking into a cave. He repainted the apartment and stripped the floors with the sander. It came out great. But it was so funny. |
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| I was hired by our local bank a few years ago to repaint a house that had been busted for a meth lab..there was one room in the house that was painted all black, even the furniture, I think that's where they 'cooked' their product...bizarre looking, and a nasty odor.. |
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Location: closely held secret | I'm surprised they let you in there. In Oregon the house has to either be gutted or torn down, due to the toxicity of the chemicals used. |
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| The bank that reposessed the house minimized the toxicity claims so they could sell the house and break even on the oustanding debt. But, the house was a disaster..we pulled out all the old carpets and tile, all the old furniture and appliances, it took me quite a while just to do the prep work, then the ceilings got 3 coats of paint, the walls got 4 coats..plus doors and trim...I'll never bid another job like that, even for time and materials it wasn't worth it.. |
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